A    S  H  O  R  T 

ADDRESS 

TO 

Perfons  of  all  Denominations, 

OCCASIONED    BY    THE 

Alarm  of  an  Intended  Invasion, 

..J      _ 

By  GEORGE   WHITEFIELD, 

Chaplain  to  the  Right  Honourable  the  Countefs  of 
Huntingdon. 

I  will  alfo  Jhew  my  Opinion.     Job  xxxii.  lo. 

The  Third  Edition. 

LONDON  Printedj 

Philadelphia  Re-printed,  and  Sold  by  B.  Frank^ 
LIN,  and  D.  Hall,  at  the  New-Printing-Offifi^ 
in  Market-Jireeti     Mdcclvi. 


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A    SHORT 

ADDRESS, 

Men,  Brethren,  and  Fathers, 

THO'  fo  many  alarming  Warnings,  pa- 
thetic Exhortations,  and  fuitable  Direc- 
tions, have  already  been  given  both  from 
the  Prefs  and  Pulpit,  by  Way  of  Prepa- 
ratives to  our  late  publick  Day  of  Humiliation ; 
yet  Ihould  one,  who  is  lefs  than  the  leaft  of  all  his 
Brethren,  now  that  Solemnity  is  over,  prefume  to 
trouble  his  dear  .Countrymen  with  a  IKort  Addrefs, 
by  Way  of  Supplement  to  what  hath  already  been 
offered,  it  is  to  be  hoped  none  will  be  fo  unkind  as 
to  look  upon  it  altogether  as  fuperfluous  and  need- 
lefs,  much  lefs,  be  fo  ungenerous  as  to  cenfure  it  as 
proceeding  from  the  Pride  and  Naughtinels  of  his 
Heart.-— But  lliould  this  be  the  Cafe,  I  fhall  make 
no  other  Apology  (as  I  think  there  needs  no  other) 
than  that  which  David,  the  youngeft  of  the  Sons 
of  Jejfe,  made  long  ago  upon  a  like  Occafion, 
*'  Is  there  not  a  Caufe  ?'* 

An  infulting,  enraged,  and  perfidious  Enemy  is 
now  advancing  nearer  and  nearer  to  the  Briiijb  Bor- 
ders.—Not  content  with  invading  and  ravaging  our 
rightful  Sovereign  King  George's  Dominions  in  A- 
mrica^  our  Popifli  Adverfaries  have  now  the  Am- 
A  2  bition 


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bit'ion  to  attempt,  at  leafl  to  threaten,  an  Invafion 
of  England  itfelf  •,  hoping,  no  doubt,  thereby  not 
only  to  throw  us  into  Confufion  at  Home,  but  aHb 
to  divert  us  from  more  effe6lua11y  defeating  their 

maUcious  Defigns  Abroad. That  fuch  a  Defign 

(however  chimerical  it  may  feem)  is  now  aftually 
on  foot,  the  Royal  Proclamation  lately  iflued  forth 
renders  indifputable. — Which  Proclamation,  as  it 
plainly  befpeaks  his  Majelly's  paterjial  Care,  doth 
ar  the  fame  time  loudly  call  upon  all  his  faithful 
and  loving  Subjedts,  not  only  to  ftand  upon  their 
Guard,  but  alfo  to  exert  their  utmoft  Efforts,  in  De- 
pendance  on  ditine  Proterflion,  to  prevent  and  ren- 
der abortive  fuch  an  iinjufl  and  daring  Enterprise. 

BlelTed  be  God,  as  a  profeffing,  tho'  flnful,  Peo- 
ple, We  have  lately  taken  one  efiedual  Step  to- 
wards bringing  about  fuch  a  falutary  E.nd. 

In  Obedience  to  a  Call  from  the  Throne  we  have 
been  humbling  ourfelves  in  the  moft  public  and  fo- 
lemn  Manner  before  the  mofl  High  God — And 
*tis  to  be  hoped  that  the  many  Tear§  that  were  that 
Day  fhed,  and  the  Thoufands  and  Thoufands  of 
Prayers  that  were  then  offered  up,  have  long  fincc 
been  regarded  by,  and  entered  into  the  Ears  of,  tiie 
I-ord  of  Sabbaoth. —Infidels  may  perhaps  laugh  and 
make  themfelves  merry  with  fuch  an  Infinuation :  But 
ferious  People  (and  to  fuch  in  a  more  peculiar  Man- 
ner is  this  Addrefs  direded)  will  account  it  no 
"Ways  enthufiaftic  to  affirm  that  folemn  Humilia- 
tions, whether  performed  by  public  Communities 
in  general,  or  Individuals  in  particular,  have  always 
met  with  fuch  a  Divine  Acceptance,  as  to  obtain  at 
leaft  a  Reprieve  from,  if  not  a  total  Removal  of, 
the  threatened  Evil. — The  deferring  of  an  impend* 
ing  Judgment  only  upon  the  hypocritical,  but  pub- 
lic Humiliation  of  a  wicked  Jhab Thtiiiature 

and 


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and  providential  Deliverance  of  the  J^wi/h  People 
from  the  cruel  Plot  of  an  ambitious  Haman,  which 
Queen  £:jlher,  Mordecai,  and  the  other  diftrefTed 
Jews  ibught  fo  earneftly  for  by  public  Fading  and 
Prayer — And  what  is  yet  more,  the  total  and  en- 
tire Sufpenfron  of  the  Dcftrudion  of  Nineveh,  that 
exceeding  great  City,  tho'  fo  peremptorily  denoun- 
ced, upon  the  Fading,  Praying,  and  Repenting  of 
ttue  j^ing.  Nobles  and  Commons,,  at  the  Preaching 
of  Jcn&h.  TJiele,  I  fay,  not  to  mention  many 
more  that  might  be  adduced  from  facred  Story, 
are  rnoft  pregnant,  and,  at  the  lame  time,  very  en- 
couraging Proofs,  that  thofe  that  humble  them- 
felves  ihall  in  God's  due  Time  be  exalted  ;  and 
that  therefore,  as  a  Nation,  we  may  boldly  infer, 
that  the  righteous  L-ord,  who  delights  to  fliew 
himfelf  ftrong  in  Behalf  of  thofe  who  are  of  an  up- 
right Heart,  will  favour,  plead  and  vindicate  our 
r^hteous  Caufe. 

1  am  very  fenfibie  that  artful  Infinuations  have 
been  induftriouily  publifhed,  in  order  to  lay  all  die 
Blame  of  this  War  upon  us. —  But  bold  Afiertions 
and  folid  Proofs  are  two  different  Things  :-— For  it  is 
plain,  beyond  all  Concradi6tion,  that  the  French^ 
fond  of  rivaling  us  both  at  Home  and  Abroad,  have 
rnoft  unjuftly  invaded  his  Majefty's  Dominions  in 
Afiierka ;  and  have  alfo  not  only  by  the  rnoft  vile 
Artifices  and  Lies  been  endeavouring  to  draw  the 
Si^  Nations  of  htdums  from  our  Intereft  ;  but,  in 
fhort,  almoft  all  their  Proceedings,  ever  ^mct  the  late 
Treaty  of  Ah:-la-Chap£lle,  have  been  httlc  elfe  than 
Preparations  for,  or  a  tacit  Declaration  of.  War.— 
But  he  that  fitceth  in  Heaven,  as  we  may  humbly 
hope,  laughs  them  to  Scorn  ;  and,  as  he  once  de- 
feated the  Counfel  of  Jhkophel,  and  came  down  to 
confound  the  Language  of  thofe  afpiring  Projedors 

who 


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who  would  fain  have  built  a  Tower,  the  Top  of 
which  fhould  reach  even  to  Heaven  ;  fo  we  truft 
(whatever  dark  Providences  may  intervene)  that  He 
will  in  the  End  fruftrate  the  Devices  of  our  Adverfa- 
ry's  moft  fubtle  Politicians,  and  fpeak  Confufion  to 
all  their  Projedls,  who,  by  aiming  at  univerfal  Mo- 
narchy, are  more  than  attempting  to  ere6t  a  fecond 
Babel. 

I  have  heard,  or  read  fomewhere,  of  a  Turkifh 
General,  who,  being  call'd  to  engage  with  a  Chri- 
ftian  Army  that  had  broken  through  the  moft  fo- 
lemn  Ties,  ftood  up  at  the  Head  of  his  Troops, 
and  then  drawing  out  the  Treaty  which  they  had 
broken  out  of  his  Bofom,  and  holding  it  up  in  the 

Air,  thus  addrefled  the  Throne  of  Heaven  : 

"  O  Almighty  Being,  if  thou  art,  as  they  fay  thou 
■"  art,  thefe  Chriftians  God,  Thou  loveft  what  is 
**  right,  and  hateft  Perfidy  :  look  down  therefore 
"  and  behold  this  Treaty  which  they  have  broken ; 
*'  and,  as  thou  canftnot  favour  what  is  wrong,  rcn- 
*'  der  their  Arms,  O  God,  fuccefslefs,  and  make 
^'  mine  vi(5lorious.'*— He  ended— Immediately  the 
Sword  was  drawn.— The  two  Parties  vigoroufly  en- 
gaged, and  the  perfidious  Chrifbians  were  beaten  off 
the  Field.— Thus  may  our  Proteftant  Generals,  or- 
at  leafb  their  Chaplains,  deal  with  our  Enemy's 
Forces,  in  rcfpeft  to  the  Treaty  oV  Aix-la-Chapelk, 
—They,  not  we,  have  broken  it.— They,  not  we, 
have  been  the  AggrefTors  :— And  therefore,  not- 
withftanding  we  are  look'd  upon  as  Hereticks,  and 
they  fight  under  the  Banner  of  onq  who  ftiles  him- 
felf  His  moft  Chriftian  Majefty  ;  a  righteous  God,  we 
truff,  in  Anfwer  to  Prayer,  will  humble  France,  and 
make  tlie  Briiiftj  Arms  both  by  Sea  and  Land  more 

than  Conquerors  thro'  his  Love. It  is  true  (and 

God  knows  with  Grief  of  Heart  I  fpeak  \t)  pray- 
ing 


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ing  is  become  too  unfafhionable  amongft  our  People 
in  general,  and  among  our  military  Men  in  particu- 
lar ;  but  wherein  either  the  Piety,  and  confequently 
true  Policy,  of  fuch  a  Procedure  confifts,  I  believe 

will  be  very  difficult  to  determine. If  we  have 

Recourfe  to  Mr.  Rollings  Antient  Hiftory,  I  believe 
we  fhall  find  that  neither  Darius,  Cyrus,  Jlexander^ 
or  indeed  fcarce  any  of  the  Egyptian,  Grecian,  Per- 
Jian,  or  Roman  Generals,  ever  undertook  any  ha- 
zardous Enterprize,    without  making  fome  publick 

Acknowledgment  of  a  Deity. And  if  we  con- 

fult  that  Hiftory  of  Hiftories,  that  too  much  ne- 
gledted  Book  (as  Sir  Richard  Steel  exprefles  himfelf ) 
emphatically  call'd  the  Scriptures,  we  may  always 
remark  that  thofe  heroic  Worthies,  who  by  Faith 
.fubducd  Kingdoms,  and  put  to  Flight  the  Armies 
of  the  Aliens,  were  Men  of  Prayer  as  well  as  Men 
of  Valour. And  if  our  Refearches  defcend  for- 
wards down  to  our  own  Annals,  we  fhall  be  foon 
fatisfied,  that  the  Britijh  Arms  were  never  more  for- 
midable than  when  our  Soldiers  went  forth  in  the 
Strength  of  the  Lord,  and  with  a  Bible  in  one 
Hand,  and  a  Sword  in  the  other,  chearfully  fought 
under  his  Banner,  who  hath  condefcended  to  ftilc 
himfelf  a  Man  of  JVar. 

Such  an  Appellation  as  this,  methinks,  may  fuf- 
ficiently  juftify  the  Lawfulnefs  of  bearing  Arms, 
and  drawing  the  Sword  in  Defence  of  our  civil  and 
religious  Liberties. — For  if  God  himfelf  is  pleafed 
to  ftile  himfelf  a  Man  of  War,  furely  in  a  juft  and 
and  righteous  Caufe  (fuch  as  the  Britijh  War  at 
prefcnt  is)  we  may  as  lawfully  draw  our  Swords, 
in  order  to  defend  ourfelves  againft  our  common 
and  public  Enemy,  as  a  civil  Magiftrate  may  fit 
on  a  Bench,  and  condemn  a  public  Robber  to 
Death.    Our  excellent  Reformers,  fenfible  of  this. 


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!n  the  Thirty-fecond  Article  of  our  Church,  afte# 
having  declared  "  that  the  Laws  of  the  Realm 
•'  may  punifh  Chriftian  Meti  with  Death  fpr  iiei^ 
**  nous  Offences  ;**  immediately  fubjoins,  "  thai 
•'  it  is  lawful  for  Chtiflian  Men,  at  the  Command* 
*'  ment  of  the  Magiflrate,  to  wear  Weapons,  and 
•'  ferve  in  the  Wars." — And  therefore,  what  Bi- 
fliop  SaUnderfoH  fays  of  Study,  may  be  likewife  faid 
of  Fighting :  "  Fighting  without  Prayer  is  Atheifrh^ 
•'  and  Prayer  Without  Fighting  is  Prefumption.'*— * 
And  I  would  be  the  more  particular  on  this  Point, 
becaufe^  through  a  fatal  Scrupulofity  againfl  bear* 
3ng  Arms^  even  in  a  defenfive  War,  his  Majefty 
hath  been,  and  is  not  yet  out  of  Danger  of  lofmg 
that  large,  extenfive,  and  that  lately  mofl  ffeuriHi* 
ing  Province  of  Pennfyhania,  the  very  Centre  and- 
Garden  of  all  Nortb-Jmerka.— But  whilfl  I  fed 
fuch  very  fcrupulous  Perfons  grafping  at  every  Dt^ 
gree  of  worldly  Power,  and  by  all  the  Arts  of 
worldly  Policy  labouring  to  monopolize  and  rctairt 
\n  their  own  Hands  all  Paits  both  of  the  legifla- 
tive  and  executive  Branches  of  Oivil  Governmbnt  jf 
to  fpeak  in  the  mildefl  Terms,  we  may  honeftly 
affirm,  that  they  certainly  aft  a  moft  inconfiftent| 
and  if  not  prevented  here  at  Home,  to  ThoufandS 
of  their  Neighbours,  I  fear  a  Very  fataF  Part.— 
For,  fay  what  we  will  to  the  contrary,  if  we  fearcH 
to  the  Bottom  of  Things,  we  may  foon  be  con- 
Viricedi  that  Civil  Magiftracy  and  Defenfive  Wat 
tnufl  ftand  or  fall  together.-^-Both  are  built  nport 
the  fame  Bafis ;  and  there  cannot  be  fo  much  as 
bne  fingle  Argument  urged  to  eftablifh  the  one,' 
which  doth  not  at  the  fame  time  corroborate  and 
confirm  the  other. 

Far  be  it  from  me,  who  profefs  myfelf  a  Difci** 
tic  and  Minifter  of  the  Prince  of  Peace,  to  found 

a  Trum- 


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14  Trumpet  for  War  :    But  when  the  Trumpet  is 
already  founded  by  a  perfidious  Enemy,  and  our 
King,  our  Country,   our  civil  and  religious  Liber- 
ties are  all,  as  it  were,  lying  at  Stake,  did  we  not  at 
fuch  a  Seafon  lend  our  Purfes,  our  Tongues,  our 
Arms,  as  well  as  our  Prayers,  in  Defence  of  them, 
ihould  we  not  juftly  incur  that  Curfe  which  an-  in- 
ipired  Deborah^  when  under  the  immediate  Influ- 
ence of  the  Holy  Spirit,  once   uttered,  Curfe  ys 
Meroz,  curfe  ye  bitterly  the  Inhahitants  thereof  he- 
taufe  they  came  not  to  the  Help  of  the  Lord,   to  the 
Help  of  the  Lord  againjl  the  Mighty  ? — Known  un- 
to God,  and  God  alone,    are  all  our  Hearts. — 
Daily  and  repeated  Experience  convinceth  us,  that 
the  greateft  Talkers  are  not  always  the  greateft 
Doers. •-■"How  therefore  any  of   us   may   behave 
when  put  to  the  Trial,  the  Trial  itfelf  can  only 
prove.- -But,  for  my  own  Part,  whatever  my  fu- 
ture Condu6t  may  be  (and  I  know  it  will  be  down- 
right  cowardly,   if  left  to  myfelf)    yet,  upon  the 
matureft  Deliberation,  I  am  at  prefcnt  fo  fully  con- 
vinced of  the  Juftice  of   the  Britiftj  Caufe,   that 
fuppofmg  it  (hould  be  faid  of  me,  as  it  is  of  Zwing- 
Uus,  Cecidit  in  Pr<elio — He  fell  in  Battle  ; — I  hope, 
if  whilft  the  Silver  Cords  of  Life  are  loofing,  I 
ihall  be  attended  by  any  who  may  be  bewailing 
mine,  as  the  Friends  of  Zwinglius  did  his  Misfor- 
tune, I  fhould  like  him  cry  out,  Ecquid  hoc  infor- 
tunii?- — Is  this  a  Misfortune? — And  not  only  fo, 
but  alfo  with  my  expiring  Breath   add,  as  he  did^ 
O  fauflum. infortunium  !   O  happy  Misfortune! — - 
For,  furely,    it  is  far  more  preferable  to  die,  tho* 
by  a  Popifli  Sword,  and  be  carried   from  the  Din 
and  Noife  of  War  by  Angels  into  Abraham^  Bo- 
fom,  than  to  be  fuffered  to  furvive,  only  to  drag 

B  on 


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on  a  wearifome  Life,  and  to  be  a  mournful  Spec?- 
tator,  and  daily  Bewailer,  of  one's  Country's  Rui.n. 

Avvful  and  tremendous  are  the  Judgments  that 
have  lately  been  abroad.-— Twice  hath  the  Earth  on 
which  this  great  Metropolis  ftands,  unable,  as  it 
were,  any  longer  to  fultain  the  Weight  of  its  In- 
habitants Sins,  been  made  to  tremble  and  totter 
iinder  us. — Since  that,  ho\V  amazingly  hath  the 
Shock  been  extended  !—y^/r/V^  (nor  h3.t\i  J?nerica 
itfelf  been  exempted)  hath  in  a  moft  deflrudive 
Manner  felt  its  dire  Effects. — And  what  a  dreadful 
COnfumption  it  hath  made  in  various  Parts  of  Spain, 
and,  in  a  more  efpecial  Manner,  at  Li/Ion^  the 
Metropolis  of  Portugal^  is  beyond  Conception,  and 
beyond  the  Power  of  the  ffioft  maflerly  Pen  to  de- 
fcribc.— It  is  to  be  queftioned,  whether  the  like 
hath  ever  been  heard  of  fince  the  Deluge.— Surely 
nothing  was  wanting  to  figure  out  and  realize  to 
that  diftrefled  People  the  Horror  of  the  Laft  Day, 
but  the  Sound  of  the  Trump,  and  the  aftual  Ap- 
pearance of  the  great  Judge  of  Quick  and  Dead. 
—But  awful  and  tremendous  as  fuch  Ph^nomenas 
of  Nature  may  be  •,  yet,  if  we  confider  the  Con- 
fequences  of  Things,  was  even  the  like  Judgment 
(which  may  God  avert)  to  befal  us,  it  would  be 
but  a  fmall  one,  in  Comparifon  of  our  hearing  that 
a  French  Army,  accompanied  with  a  Popifh  Pre- 
tender, and  Thoufands  of  RomiJJj  Priefts,  was  fof- 
tered  to  invade,  fubdue,  and  deflroy  the  Bodies 
and  Subflance,  and,  as  the  neceflary  Confequences 
of  both  thefe,  to  blind,  deceive,  and  tyrannize 
over  the  Souls  and  Confciencco  of  the  People  be- 
longing to  this  happy  Ifle. 

God  forbid  that  I  fhould  give  flattering  Titles  to 
any  -,  for  in  fo  doing,  I  fhould  provoke  him  to  take 
away  my  Soul.----But  furely  we  muft  have  Eyes 

that 


[  II  ] 

that  fee  not,  and  Ears  that  hear  not,  as  well  as 
Hearts  that  do  not  iinderftand,  if  we  do  not  know, 
and  fee,  and  feel,  that  in  refpedlto  our  civil  and  re- 
ligious Liberties,  we  are  undoubtedly  the  freed 
People  under  Heaven.-— -And  I  dare  appeal  to  the 
rnoft  ungrateful  and  malicious  Malecontent,  to  pro- 
duce any  i^ra  in  the  Britijh  Annals,  wherein  we 
have  enjoyed  fuch  a  continued  Series  of  civil  and  re- 
ligious Liberty,  as  we  have  been  favoured  with  for 
thefe  Twenty-eight  Years  laft  pad,  under  the  mild 
and  gentle  Adminiftration  of  our  dread  and  right- 
ful Sovereign  ¥^mg  George. Surely  he  hath  been 

a  Nurfing  Father  to  People  of  all  Denominations  ; 
and  however  he  may  be  denied  it,  yet  he  may,  with- 
out a  Compliment,  juftly  claim  from  the  pre- 
fent,  as  well  as  future  Age,  the  deferved  Title  of 
GEORGE  THE  GREAT.- — But  notwith- 
ftanding  this,  fuch  is  the  Degeneracy  of  human 
Nature,  it  muft  necefiarily  be  expedled,  that,  in  a 
Nation  grown  wanton  with  Liberty  like  ours,  there 
is  a  great  Multitude  of  unhappy  Perfons,  who  being 
Men  of  lax  Principles,  loofe  Lives,  and  broken 
Fortunes,  may,  and  will  be  fo  abandoned,  as  to 
break  through  all  Reftraints  of  Gratitude,  Loyalty 
and  Religion,  and,  like  Caialine,  and  his  wicked 
Confederates,  be  fond  of  joining  in  any  Change  of 
Government,  whereby  they  may  entertain  the  mod 
diftant  Profpeft  of  bettering  their  Fortunes,  and 
gratifying  their  Ambition,  tho'  it  be  attheExpence 

of  their  Country's  Blood. This  hath  been,  and 

no  Doubt  flill  continues  to  be,  the  Fate  of  all  Civil 
Governments  in  the  World,  and  confequently  is  no 
more  than  what  we  may  expeft,  in  Times  of  Tu- 
mult and  Danger,  will  be  a6ted  over  again  in  our 
qwn  Land  by  Men  of  fuch  corrupt  Minds. — But 
iiow  any  ferious  and  judicious,  much  lefs  religious 
B  2  an4 


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and  devout  Pcrfon,  can  be  To  ftupid  to  all  Principles 
of  Self-intereft,  and  fo  dead  even  to  all  Maxims  of 
common  Senfe,  as  to  prefer  a  French  to  an  Englijh^ 
Government  -,  or  a  Popijh  Pretender^  born»  nurfed, 
and  bred  up  in  all  the  arbitrary  and  deftrudtivc  Prin- 
ciples of  the  Court  and  Church  of  Rome^  to  the  pre- 
fent  Proiejiant  Succejfion  fettled  in  the  illuftrious  Line 
of  Hanover^  muft  be  imputed  to  nothing  elfe  but  an 
awful  Infatuation. 

Hear  ye,  (if  there  be  any  into  whofe  Hands  this 
Addrefs  may  falU  that  are  defirous  of  fuch  a  Change)' 
not  to  dwell  entirely  upon  the  many  innumerable, 
civil  or  temporal  Lofles  we  fhould  fuftain  :  Hear  ye, 
I  fay,  the  mild  and  gentle  Language  of  one  of  his 
moftChriftian  Majefty's  late  Declarations .  concern- 
ing Religion. 

"  Being  informed,  that  there  have  fprung  up, 
and  ftill  arc  fpringing  up,  daily  in  our  Realm,  a 
great  Number  of  Preachers^  whofe  fole  Bufinefs  is  to 
ftir  up  the  People  to  RebeRiori,  and  to  dilTaade  them 
from  the  Pradlice  of  the  Roman  Catholic  and  Apo- 
ftolic  Religion  ;  we  do  command  that  all  Preachers, 
who  fhall  call  AfTemblies,  preach  in  them,  or  dif- 
charge  any  other  Funftion,  be  put  to  Death  j  the 
Punifliment  appointed  by  the  Declaration  in  July 
1686,  for  the  Minifter  of  the  pretended  reformed 
Religion,  which  we  would  not,  for  the  future,  have 
any  one  efteem  a  mere  Threatening,  which  will  not 
be  put  in  Execution.  We  do  likewife  forbid  our 
Subjefls  to  receive  the  faid  Minifters  or  Preachers,  to 
conceal,  aid,  orafliftthem,  or  have,  diredly  or  indiV 
re(^Iy,  any  Intercourfe  or  Correfpondence  with 
them.  We  farther  enjoin  all  thofe,  who  fKall  know 
any  of  the  faid  Preachers,  to  inform  againfl  therrt 
to  the  Officers  of  the  refpeftive  Places ;  the  whol^ 
uader  P^in,  in  cafe  of  Trefpafs,  of  being  condemn- 

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cd  to  theGallies  for  Life,  if  Men ;  and  if  Women, 
of  being  fliorn,  and  Ihut  up  the  Remainder  of  their 
Days  in  fuch  Places  as  our  Judges  Ihalt  think  ex- 
pedient ;  and  whether  they  be  Men  or  Women, 
onder  Pain  of  Confifcation." 
/■  After  perufing  this,  read,  read,  I  befeech  youi. 
the  Ihocking  Accounts  of  the  horrid  Butcheries^ 
and  cruel  Murders  committed  on  the  Bodies  of 
many  of  our  P'ellow-Subjeds  in  Anerka^  by  the 
Hands  of  favage  Indians,  inftigated  thereto  by  more 
than  favage  Popifii  Priefts  *.— -And  if  this  be  the 
Beginning,  what  may  wc  fuppofe  the  End  will  be,- 
ihould  a  French  Power,  or  Popifh  Pretender,  be 
permitted  to  fubdue  either  us  or  them  ?  -r-Speak 
Smithjieldy  fpeak,  and  by  thy  dumb,  but  very  per- 
fuafive  Oratory,  declare  to  all  that  pafs  by  and  over 
thee,  how  many  Englijh  Proteftant  Martyrs  thou 
haft  feen  burnt  to  Death,  in  the  Reign  of  a  cruei 
Popifh  Queen,  to  whom  the  prefent  Pretender  to 
the  Britijh  Throne  at  leaft  claims  a  Kind  of  a  difta«c 
Kindred  ?— Speak  /rf/^W,  fpeak,  and  tell  if  thou 
canii,  how  many  Thoufands,  and  Tens  of  Thou- 
fands  of  innocent  unprovoking  Proteftants  were 
maflacred  in  cold  Blood  by  the  Hands  of  cruel 
Papifts  within  thy  Borders,  about  a  Century  ago. 
Nay,  fpeak  Paris,  fpeak  (for  tho'  Popifh,  on  this 
Occafion  we  will  admit  thy  Evidence)  and  fay, 
how  many  Thoufands  of  Proteftants  were  once 
flaughtered,  on  Purpofe,  as  it  were,  to  ferve  up  as 
a  bloody  Defert  to  grace  the  Solemnity  of  a  Mar- 
riage-feaft. — But  why  go  we  back  to  fuch  diftant 
^ras  ? — Speak,  Languedoc,  fpeak  and  tell,  if  thou 
canft,  how  many  Proteftant  Minifters  have  been 
liitely  executed  j  how  many  more  of  their  Hearers 

have 

*  See  a  Pamphlet,  intituled,  A  brief  View  of  the  Conduii 
of  Pennrylvania  far  the  Tear  1755. 


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have  been  dragooned  and  fent  to  the  Gal  lies  ;  Q;\d 
how  many  Hundreds  are  now,  in  confequence  or 
the  abovemcntioned  Edi(3:,  lying  in  Prifons,  an4 
.faft  bound  in  Mifery  and  Iron,  for  no  other  Crime 
than  that  unpardonable  one  in  the  Romi/h  Church  ; 
I  mean,  hearing  and  preaching  the  pure  Gofpel  of 
the  meek  and  lowly  Jffus. 

And  think  you,    my  dear   Countrymen,    that 
Rome,  glutted,  as  it  were,  with  Proteflant  Blood, 
will  now  reft  fatisfied,  and  fay,  "  I  have  enough?" 
— No,  on  the  contrary,    having,  thro'   the  good 
Hand  of  God  upon  us,  been  kept  fo  long  fajiing^ 
we  may  reafonably  fuppofe,  that  the  Popifh  Priefls 
are  only  grown  more  voracious,  and  (like  fo  many 
hungry  and  ravenous  Wolves  purfuing  the  harmle^ 
and  innocent  Flocks  of  Sheep)  with  double  Eager- 
nefs  will  purfue  after,  feize  upon,  and  devour  their 
wifhed   for  Proteftant  Prey  ;    and^   attended  with 
their  bloody  Red-coats,  tl^ofe   Gdlick  Inftruments 
of  Reformation,  who  know  they  muft  either  fight 
or  die,    will  necefTarily   breathe   out   nothing  but 
Threatning  and   Slaughter,    and  carry  along  with 
them  Defolation  and  Deftrudlion   in  all  its  various 
Shapes  and  Tortures,  go  where  they  will. 
.  But  I  humbly  hope,  vile  as  we  are,  a  gracious, 
long-fuffering  and  merciful  God  will  not  fuffer  us 
to  tall  into  their  Blood-thirfty  and  cruel  Hands.—-. 
He  hath  formerly  mod  remarkably  interpofed  in 
England's  Favour  ;  and  why  ihould  vfe  in  the  leaft 
doubt  but  that  He  will  again  reveal  his  Omnipotent 
i\rm,  and  make  our  Extremity  to  be  his  Oppor- 
tunity., to  help  and  defend  us  againfl  fuch  threat- 
ning  and  unjuft  Invaders  ? — Invincible  as  the  Spa- 
7ijjh  Armada  was  fuppofed  to  be,  and  all-powerful 
as  the  Pope,  under  whofe  broad  Seal  they  afted, 
jnight  boaft  he  was  in  Heaven  or  Hell,  it  is  plain 

"  he 


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lie  had  no  Power  over  the  Water.  For  thou  didfl 
blozv,  O  Lord,  with  thy  Wind^  and  the  Enemy  was 
fcattercd. — And  is  not  this  God  the  fame  now  as 
he  was  Yefterday  ?  And  will  he  not  continue  the 
fame  for  ever  ?  Of  whom  then  fhould  the  Inha- 
bitants of  Great-Britain  be  afraid? BlefTed  be 

God,  if  we  look  to  fecond  Caufes,  we  have  a 
glorious  Fleet,  brave  Admirals,  a  well-difciplined 
Army,  experienced  Officers,  and,  if  Occafion 
fliouid  require,  Thoufands  and  Thoufands  of  hear- 
ty Voluntiers,  with  a  Royal  Hero^  who  hath  once 
been  made  happily  inftrumental  to  fave  his  Coun- 
try from  impending  Ruin,  if  not  MAJESTY 

ITSELF,  prepared  to  head  them. And  if 

by  fading  from  as  well  as  for  Sin,  and  by  flying, 
thro*  a  living  Faith,  to  the  Merits  of  a  dyings 
rifing,  afcendetl  and  interceding  Mediator,  we  cari 
but  make  GOD  our  Friend,  we  need  not  fear 
what  France  and  Rome,  and  Hell,  with  all  its  united 
Force,  can  do  unto,  or  plot  againft,  us.— The  Way 
of  Duty  is  the  Way  of  Safety. — And  if  we  are 
but  found  in  the  jduerljfe  of  proper  Means,  we 
may  confidently  leaVe  the  IfTue  and  Event  of 
Things  with  God. — Be  that  Event  what  "r  will 
(and  I  truft  it  will  be  a  profperous  one)  we  have  a 
divine  Authority  to  fay  unto  the  Righteous,  It  fliall 
be  well  with  them.— — God's  own  People,  amidft 
a-11  the  Wars,  and  Rumours  of  Wars,  may  reft 
fecure  ;  for  they  not  only  dwell  under  the  Sha- 
dow of  the  moft  High,  but  have  his  own  royal 
Word  for  it,  that  all  Things  fhall  work  together 
for  their  Good. — And  not  oniv  fo,  but  they  may 
alfo  be  fully  affured,  that  all  the  malicious  Efiorts 
and  Defigns  of  Men  and  Devils  Ihall  be  fo  far 
froQi  obftruding,  that,  on  the  contrary,  thro'  thtj 
furc,  tho'  fecrec  Hand  ot  an  ever-watchfui,  ov : 


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ruling,  and  omnip6tent  Providence,  they  fliall  at 
prefent  (hoWbeit  they  think  not  fo)  be  made  not 
©nly  to  fubfervc  the  prefent  further  Enlargement 
of  H  I  S  Interefts,  who,  in  fpitc  of  all  the  Striv- 
ings of  the  Potfherds  of  the  Earth,  will  hold  tlie 
Balance  of  UNIVERSAL  MONARCHY 
in  his  own  Hands ;  but  at  lafl:  fhall  terminate  in 
the  full  and  compleat  Ellablifhment  and  Perfedion 
of  "  that  blelled  Kingdom,  whofe  Law  is  Truth, 
**'  whofe  King  is  Love,  and  whofe  Duration  is 
"  Eternity/* Fiat,  !  Fiat!, 


FINIS, 


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